Receptacle



R. R. FENSKA Jan. 30, 1.934.

`REICEPTACL'E Filed DeC. 17, 1951 l N VEN TOR. AQyer Ede/mm A TTORNE Y.

Patented Jan. 30, 1934 UNITED STATES RECEPTACLE Roger R. Fenska, South Bend, Ind.

Application December 17, 1931 Serial No. 581,685

2 Claims.

The invention relates to receptacles, and particularly to display receptacles commonly known as cookie or biscuit caddies.

The confections carried by these receptacles v are generally fresh until they are all sold, but customers seeing a receptacle in which only a few confections remain in the bottom thereof commonly believe that those confections have been in stock so long that they are no longer fresh and thus hesitate to buy confections from any but substantially filled receptacles.

The object of my invention is to overcome this hesitancy of customers to purchase the remaining confections of a partially lled receptacle by providing a receptacle having a false bottom which may be selectively raised and lowered to position the uppermost confections of the receptacle in the upper portion of the receptacle whereby the customer will believe that the receptacle is newly opened and will not hesitate to buy the last confections in the receptacle.

A further object is to provide a device of this character having a false bottom with novel and simple means for securing the false bottom in desired position in the receptacle.

With the above and other objects in view, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts as hereinafter set forth, shown in the drawing, described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention may be made within the scope of what is claimed without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the drawing:

Figure 1 is a perspective View of the receptacle.

Figure 2 is a vertical sectional view of the receptacle taken on line 2-2 of Figure 1.

Figure 3 is a fragmentary perspective View of the receptacle which shows a section of the receptacle taken on line 3--3 of Figure 2.

Referring to the drawing, which illustrates the preferred embodiment of the invention, the numeral 1 designates a conventional confection receptacle or caddy having a bottom 2 and sides 3. A display top 4 of conventional construction adapted for removal from the receptacle when emptied to be used with successive receptacles containing the same merchandise is mounted on the top of the receptacle. The top 4 comprises a frame 5 fitting over the upper edges of the sides 3 of the receptacle and having pivotally mounted thereon at 6 a top member 7 having a sight opening in which a glass 8 is mounted. The confections 9, shown in dotted lines in Figure 2, are vdisposed in the receptacle in layers, each layer being disposed on a separating sheet 10 which is held in spaced relation above the next lower separating sheet by Vertical partitions 11 which provide individual chambers for the confections, and support the separating sheet next above to pre e0 vent crushing of the confections disposed therebetween. 4

The bottom layer of the confections is disposed on a false bottom 12 which supports the upper layers through the partitions 11 and separating sheets 10. The false bottom 12 is of a dimension slightly less than the dimension of the bottom 2 of the receptacle whereby its edges have a slight clearance with the sides 3 of the receptacle to permit free vertical movement thereof in the receptacle. Eyelets 13 are carried by opposite sides of the false bottom and form means to which cords 14 are secured to the false bottom, two eyelets preferably being secured at each of two opposite sides of the false bottom whereby both ends of a single cord may be secured to one side of the false bottom. A pair of spaced apertures 15 are formed adjacent the upper edge and centrally of the sides of the receptacle adjacent the sides of the false bottom to which the cords are secured, and the cords 14 extend upwardly from said false bottom and through and between said apertures at the outer side of the receptacle. In spaced relation below the apertures 15 and preferably equidistant therefrom, a disc 16 is centrally secured to each apertured side 3 of the receptacle at the outer side thereof by a pin or other securing member 17.

The device is used as follows: The merchant receives a receptacle 1 lled with merchandise, and with the false bottom 12 resting upon the bottom 2 of the receptacle. In this condition the central portion of each cord 14 positioned between apertures 15 at the outer side of the receptacle is substantially without slack. A suitable top 4 is applied to the receptacle, and the same is ready for display. When the upper layer of the confections has been sold, and the uppermost partitions 11 and separating sheets 10 have been removed to expose the layer of confections next below; the cords 14 may be pulled to raise the false bottom sufciently to position the then upper layer of confections adjacent the top of the receptacle to make the receptacle appear to be full. When the cords have been pulled the proper distance they are looped around the pin 1'7 and beneath the disc 16 to be constrictively held thereby in desired position. Upon emptying of 'succssve layers of' confections the cords may be loosened from the pin 1'7 and disc 16,

drawn up as necessary, and again looped around pin 17 and under disc 16, until, for the last lay- 5 er, the false bottom is positioned at the top of the receptacle in substantially the position of the uppermost separating sheet when the reoeptacle is lled. The connection'or" the cords with the false bottom, the ready accessibility of the cords at the outside of the receptacle, and the simple means for securing the cords in desired position, thus provide a simple and effective arrangement for positioning and holding the false bottom in the receptacle in position for the purpose desired, whereby the visible uppermost confections will at all times be positioned at the upper portion of the receptacle.

The invention having been set forth, what is claimed as new and useful is:-

1. The combination with a receptacle for packaging goods, opposite side walls of -said receptacle having apertures formed therein vadjacent the upper edges thereof, of a false bottom for said receptacle, cords secured at their ends to the 'opposite edges of said false bottom and Aextending to and through said apertures with their intermediate portions extending between said apertures, and a disc xedly carried by the receptacle at opposite outer sides thereof about which said cords may be adjustably looped for anchoring the cords against downward pull to hold said false bottom in adjustable horizontal position in said receptacle.

2. In combination, a receptacle for packaging goods, opposite side walls of said receptacle having spaced apertures formed therein adjacent the upper edges and equidistant from the center thereof, a false bottom loosely disposed in said receptacle, a pair of cords each secured at zontal position relative to the upper edges of L said receptacle.

ROGER R. FENSKA. 

